Oversleeve



(No Model.)

A. J. UPHAM.

Oversleeve.

No. 243,330, Pa tented June 21,1881.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREW J. UPHAM, OF STERLING, lLLINOIS.

OVERSLEEVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 243,330, dated June 21, 1881,

Application filed April 27, 1881. (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ANDREW J. UPHAM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sterling, in the county of Whiteside and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oversleeves; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the sleeve. Fig. 2 is a central section, showing how the face-lining serves to protect the shirt or coat cuff; Fig. 3, details to show the construction.

Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the oversleeve, showing present invention in section at the lower end.

This invention relates to that class of devices desired to protect shirt and coat sleeves and cuffs; and the novelty consists in so constructing an oversleeve that the facing or lining at its end will, in drawing on the oversleeve, come under the cufl'on the shirt on the end of the coat-sleeve, and thus the said cuff or sleeve will be fully and sufficiently covered, so as to be protected from the wear at or near the wrist, or from perspiration or dirt, all as will now be more fully set out and explained.

In the accompanying drawings, A denotes the oversleeve, which is made of any suitable material. At the end which comes over or about the wrist when the oversleeve is drawn on for use there is a facing, B, formed preferably by turning in the ends of the stuff the oversleeve is made of, and lining the same with pasteboard, O, or any suitable stiffening material. It will be observed that this facing thus turned in slopes or inclines in an opposite direction from the end of the sleeve, and thus there is formed a sort of pocket, D, at the end of the oversleeve. The edges of this lining are provided with short elastic pieces E, which will serve to keep it in good shape,also to hold it in place when the oversleeve is being drawn on. When this oversleeve is drawn over the shirt the facing B will come between the shirtcufi and the wrist or arm, and thus the culf will be held snugly in the pocket D at the end of the sleeve, and will be prevented from wear as well as from dirt.

This device is not only very useful where a person wishes to work in his shirt-sleeves, but is very excellent to use over the ordinary coatsleeve, as it will be of great aid to preserve the sleeve or cuff or both at the same time.

The stiffening of the inner lining or facing at the end of the oversleeve may be obtained by starching, so that there need be no lining, except what is made by the turned-in end of the sleeve itself.

This device can be made of colored goods, and of such variety of styles and shapes as may please the manufacturer to use, in order to make the same attractive and neat.

The spring-clip F at the upper end of the sleeve will serve to fasten the sleeve up.

I am aware that in an oversleeve a web fitted to fill the narrow interval between the inside of the sleeve and the arm has been used; but this merely constitutes a diaphragm inside, at right angles with the body of the sleeve, and wholly fails to accomplish what is now aimed at.

Having thus described my invention, what I consider new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. Au oversleeve having in its lower end a pocket to hold the shirt-cuff or the end of the coat-sleeve, substantially as and for the purposes set forth and described.

2. The sleeve A, having at its outer end the facing B, inclining from the body of the sleeve, forming a pocket for the cuff and stiffened, as described, and provided with elastic E, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ANDREW J. UPHAM.

Witnesses:

O. F. BEHRENDS, E. F. LAWRENCE. 

